Open AccessAdvanced systolic heart failure and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection: Proposed immunologic mechanism, diagnostic dilemma and treatment considerations
Author(s) -
Leon Varjabedian,
Shehzad Merchant,
Melissa Danek
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
case reports in internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2332-7251
pISSN - 2332-7243
DOI - 10.5430/crim.v2n3p89
Subject(s) - medicine , bronchiectasis , sputum culture , clarithromycin , heart failure , sputum , intensive care medicine , antibiotics , chronic infection , tuberculosis , productive cough , immunology , pathology , lung , immune system , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , helicobacter pylori